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| - Tis the season for Holiday Festivities. I started my holiday season with hosting a White Elephant Brunch for 14 people at North Italia. Oh, what a good time! It was a first time visit for everyone. I made the reservation for my group about 1 month prior and followed up about a week before to confirm our final number. Management, the host staff and server, Robert, were all so accommodating. We visited North Italia this past Sunday ... Sunday Funday ... Happy Hour all day baby! Happy Hour includes $5 Red Sangrias, $6 Mimosas and Bellinis, Half off Bottles of Wine, $20 Board and Bottles. Can't beat it! Majority of us stuck with Red Sangrias and Mimosas. The Dirty Almond Chai was also a winner.
Everyone ordered different items ranging from Short Rib Hash, Veggie Scrambles, Breakfast Wrap, Nonna Casserole, Americano, Mussels, Strozzapreti and Lemon Donuts.
I must be honest here .... We thoroughly enjoyed the taste of every single dish, everything was season and cooked to perfection. However, a few dishes came out cold, everything else was lukewarm. Nothing came out hot except for the Nonna Casserole (which was my favorite dish by the way). We were starving so we chowed down. Everyone mentioned their food wasn't that warm but one person absolutely had to send her dish back ... the veggie scramble. You can't enjoy cold eggs. Robert was so on point! She told him the food was too cold to enjoy, he took it back and brought a fresh, steaming hot, delicious veggie scramble in no time. Also, the mussels were a little disappointing. Although they had a nice flavor, majority of them were empty or really small. My friend ordered them and told me to dig in. I took about 4. Three of them were empty ... seriously, so I only tried one. They were pretty small too. The manager was kind enough to take them off her final bill. A few of us ordered the short rib hash, again, the flavor was out of this world good but the serving size was small. There may have been 3 small pieces of short rib on top of crispy potatoes with 2 fried (runny) eggs and grilled bread. This is important to note because everyone ordered an extra side of crispy potatoes because the menu didn't say the short rib hash comes with potatoes. Be sure to specify how you'd like your eggs cooked because they come fried very light and runny. It's definitely not your ordinary short rib hash.
I hope the pictures illustrate how much of a good time we had because we did. We're planning to try them again soon for Happy Hour.
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